Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stemware had been left in an oven. "It broke my heart," said Auctioneer Alan Erlichman. "Opulence and waste . . . It's a sacrilege." In fact, though Mrs. Marcos had stuffed the house with sugarplums, in recent years she had seldom spent a night there. In New York, she preferred to sleep in the penthouse of the posh Crown Building, which she owned, or to take a set of suites at the Waldorf-Astoria. As yet another cushion in the disco at East 66th Street points out, "Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere...
...Seth and Veronica could be any two people falling in love, eager for adventure but anxious about the changes and dark revelations that come with learning how little they know about their lovers. That nice guy lying next to you in bed, breathing in your rhythm, smiling in his sleep -- what demons sleep within him? And why does his snore sound like a gentle bzzzzz...
...hands to ears as if they do not follow. Then, obligingly, they kiss. That morning the toothy young lieutenant and the bonny red-headed publishing assistant awakened as Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II, and Sarah Margaret Ferguson. That night the two 26-year-olds went to sleep as husband and wife and, thanks to a wedding-gift title from Her Majesty, Duke and Duchess of York. Five years ago, when Prince Charles took Lady Diana Spencer for his wife, the occasion was rich with fairy-tale solemnity. As the heir to the throne exchanged troths with...
...night the boat stopped in Pakkoku. Tourist Burma had told us we had to sleep on board, but that turned out to be another official lie. We guessed that since Pakkoku wasn't on any of our maps, it must be a tiny village; it turned out to be a city of 200,000. We stayed at a family inn called the Myayatanar, where innkeeper Tint San spoke impeccable English and his son played "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da" on the guitar. They took us into town to the festival that was going on that night. We expected another...
...movie revolves around Rachel, a New York food writer, who meets, falls in love with and marries Mark Forman, a Washington columnist. These three events happen literally within ten minutes of each other. On their first date Rachel and Mark sleep together and she tells him, "I'm never getting married again." Lo and behold, the next scene is her wedding party...